With FGP, a design model is decomposed into micro-tasks and events that can then be massively parallelized. Many-core architectures have opened up a new paradigm for simulation acceleration – ‘Fine-Grained Parallelism’ (FGP). For example, today’s leading server-class processor architectures provide up to 72 CPU cores and 1152 vector cores, and GPU architectures provide up to 3072 cores. Over the past few years, the opportunity for parallel algorithms has emerged due to availability of many-core architectures with high bandwidth memory. Synopsys VCS has continually introduced groundbreaking technologies such as Roadrunner, Radiant, Native Testbench, Native Low Power and many more native optimizations for single-core performance. For more than 20 years, the industry’s largest SoCs have been verified with VCS. Since its introduction in 1992, VCS has led the industry in delivering the highest simulation performance. As such, simulation performance is the most critical element in the ability to handle growing SoC complexity and size, as well as achieve time-to-market goals.
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Simulation continues to be the workhorse of SoC verification flows and accounts for the vast majority of verification tasks. “Logic simulation/verification has an opportunity to leverage these capabilities for simulation acceleration, and Synopsys’ VCS Cheetah technology is the right step in that direction.” Today’s GPUs offer enormous acceleration for parallel computing workloads and superior performance scaling generation-to-generation,” said Jonah Alben, senior vice president of GPU engineering at NVIDIA. “Verification complexity grows 4X every two years while simulation performance is only improving 10-20 percent year-to-year. Cheetah leverages fine-grained parallelism and the latest advancements in CPU and GPU architectures to enable a simulation speed-up of up to 5X for RTL designs and up to 30X for gate-level designs. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today introduced Cheetah, a breakthrough simulation technology, as part of the Synopsys VCS® verification solution.
VCS’ Cheetah technology has shown up to a 5X speed-up in RTL and up to a 30X speed-up in gate-level simulation.VCS’ Cheetah technology is a breakthrough innovation that exploits many-core processor architectures to parallelize simulation.Today’s high-performance many-core processors provide parallel engines and high bandwidth memory that can be leveraged for simulation acceleration.Increasing System-on-Chip (SoC) complexity combined with rising time-to-market pressures are driving a continuous need for innovation in simulation performance.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 24, 2016 /PRNewswire/.
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